Personal, official, and
family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files,
biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the
public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), United
States secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; his
son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, United States representative from
Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's
family.